When Your Flight Doesn't Take Off – travel well prepared (English)

Your flight is delayed or cancelled, and the queue at the desk keeps getting longer.

This guide gives you tips on how to stay calm and act thoughtfully.

Inside you will find:

✓ What belongs in your hand luggage

– size, handbag and power bank

✓ The emergency note for all important numbers

✓ Travelling with children and toddlers

✓ When your dog flies with you

✓ Your phone as a travel companion

✓ What you may possibly be entitled to while you wait

✓ How to claim possible compensation yourself – with sample letters

✓ Entering and leaving a country – what can you bring

✓ Continuing by rental car

– checks at pick-up, breakdown assistance and safety

✓ Where you can find information yourself

✓ Checklists to print and tick off

Including notes on the new EU air passenger rights,

expected to apply from summer 2027.

Written in Switzerland

– with tips for Switzerland and Europe.

38 pages as a PDF to download, immediately after purchase.

As of October 2026.

After your purchase you will receive an email with the download link

– please also check your spam folder.

All content consists of tools and pointers – no guarantee.

The guides are for general orientation and do not replace legal, medical or travel advice.

Rules can change.

Use is at your own responsibility; no liability is accepted, neither for your actions nor for anything else, to the extent permitted by law.

The guides refer to a packing list with marked advertising links (page in German).